Re: Conditionally building `grub-emu'

2006-10-28 Thread Yoshinori K. Okuji
On Sunday 22 October 2006 16:46, Thomas Schwinge wrote: > On request / suggestion / whatever ;-) of Marco I created the following > patch. Its origin: I was trying to build GRUB2 on a system where no > (n)curses header files were installed (which configure even detected > correctly, but didn't com

Re: some multiboot2 comments

2006-10-28 Thread Yoshinori K. Okuji
On Thursday 26 October 2006 21:58, Hollis Blanchard wrote: > Module: > Because of the 'length' field in the tag header, the 'reserved' field > isn't actually needed. The 'length' field makes every one of these tag > structures inherently variably sized. Any data added later to this tag > will be sk

Re: [PATCH] generic ELF loading (updated)

2006-10-28 Thread Yoshinori K. Okuji
On Friday 27 October 2006 21:19, Hollis Blanchard wrote: > Comments please. Also see next mail to see how the PPC Linux loader uses > it. So this still loads an image to paddr directly, right? I think we need these features: - an ability to pass an address to load an image - an ability to pass

Re: some multiboot2 comments

2006-10-28 Thread Yoshinori K. Okuji
On Friday 27 October 2006 07:37, Hollis Blanchard wrote: > > Some platform may need it. On EFI the OS can't get the memmap from EFI > > because it is too late. > > OK. In that case we're still keeping with the philosophy of only passing > information to the kernel that it can't obtain itself. Howe

Re: Conditionally building `grub-emu'

2006-10-28 Thread Thomas Schwinge
Hello! On Sat, Oct 28, 2006 at 03:47:09PM +0200, Yoshinori K. Okuji wrote: > On Sunday 22 October 2006 16:46, Thomas Schwinge wrote: > > As `grub-emu' is considered to ``only'' be a debugging tool, the > > patch disables it for a default build (and thusly also avoids the > > (n)curses dependency f

Re: some multiboot2 comments

2006-10-28 Thread Hollis Blanchard
On Sat, 2006-10-28 at 16:11 +0200, Yoshinori K. Okuji wrote: > On Thursday 26 October 2006 21:58, Hollis Blanchard wrote: > > Module: > > Because of the 'length' field in the tag header, the 'reserved' field > > isn't actually needed. The 'length' field makes every one of these tag > > structures i

Re: [PATCH] generic ELF loading (updated)

2006-10-28 Thread Hollis Blanchard
On Sat, 2006-10-28 at 16:16 +0200, Yoshinori K. Okuji wrote: > On Friday 27 October 2006 21:19, Hollis Blanchard wrote: > > Comments please. Also see next mail to see how the PPC Linux loader uses > > it. > > So this still loads an image to paddr directly, right? > > I think we need these feature